Serving One Another

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.

For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; — read the full passage →

even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. — read the full passage →

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

We love, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end. — read the full passage →

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw.

Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.